GLOBAL INTERVENTIONS ACTION PLAN

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1 GLOBAL INTERVENTIONS ACTION PLAN Summary The global interventions action plan outlines UNFPA global interventions support to the strategic plan, , drawing on the comparative advantages and strengths of the organization at the global level. The purpose of the global interventions is to complement and catalyse in-country and regional interventions, and to ensure cohesion across interventions at the country, regional and global levels. The global interventions action plan, , is based on analytical work that was undertaken during the course of development of the strategic plan, , including analysis of the external and internal environments, lessons learned from the mid-term review of the strategic plan, , evaluation of its architecture, and an in-depth review of each of the key thematic areas. The global interventions in will remain grounded in this logic, using the strategic plan, , as their guiding framework. Global interventions are geared towards enabling countries and regional offices to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the agenda of the International Conference on Population and Development. This action plan outlines the role that the global interventions will play in creating the enabling environment in support of the four outcome areas of the strategic plan, To support organizational effectiveness and efficiency, the global interventions will focus on improving programming for results; optimizing management of resources; strengthening system-wide results, coordination and coherence; and enhancing communication for impact, resource mobilization and partnerships. 1

2 Contents I. Situation analysis... 3 II. Lessons learned... 5 III. Proposed global interventions, IV. Action plan management, resource mobilization, partnership, monitoring and evaluation Annex 1. Results and resources framework Annex 2. Theory of change Annex 3. Resource mobilization plan Annex 4. Partnership plan

3 I. Situation analysis 1. The Sustainable Development Goals, as set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, elaborate a universal, integrated and equality-focused sustainable development agenda, representing a major shift from the sector-driven approach of the Millennium Development Goals. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is peoplecentred with a view to achieve sustainable development through economic, social and environmental dimensions, and address the unfinished business of the MDGs. 2. The International Conference on Population and Development Beyond 2014 Review underscored the vision and values of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which is based on the premise that individual human rights and capabilities are the foundation for achieving collective sustainable development. The ICPD Beyond 2014 Review put forward equality and human rights as fundamental and cross-cutting components both centrepieces of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. While poverty reduction remains a priority focus of the agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals delve into root causes of poverty and deprivation by addressing inequality of opportunities and outcomes, as well as myriad factors that increase exclusion, marginalization and undermine the fulfilment of human rights. The Sustainable Development Goals provide a comprehensive vision of development priorities grounded in human rights, of which sexual and reproductive health and rights are an indivisible part, making clear that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will not be achieved without the universal fulfilment of sexual and reproductive health and rights. 3. The global interventions, , focus on ensuring leadership and strategic direction such that the Programme of Action of the ICPD and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are firmly placed in the frameworks for global development, humanitarian action and sustaining peace. Addressing inequalities and discrimination is central to the mandate of UNFPA, and is embedded in the UNFPA strategic plan, , including through its principle goal: to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health, realize reproductive rights, and reduce maternal mortality to accelerate progress on the Programme of Action of the ICPD, to improve the lives of women, adolescents and youth, enabled by population dynamics, human rights and gender equality. 4. Although many countries have made progress towards the MDGs, not all population groups have benefited from this progress. Recognizing this challenge, the Sustainable Development Goals place an emphasis on reducing inequalities. Success in completing the unfinished agenda and reducing inequalities calls for a focus on the furthest behind. In many cases, women, adolescents and youth are the furthest behind. They face heightened risks of human rights violations, including gender-based violence, harmful and coercive practices and discrimination. The most vulnerable and/or marginalized women and adolescents have limited or no access to sexual and reproductive health or to quality education. These risks are heightened in humanitarian contexts, where women and adolescents face even more difficult circumstances. Of the more than 125 million people requiring humanitarian assistance in 2016, over 30 million were women and adolescent girls of reproductive age between 15 and 49. Furthermore, 40 per cent of the 1.4 billion people living in states impacted by crises are under the age of 15, and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years constitute a significant proportion of the population in many conflict and post-conflict settings. 5. Despite increasing economic growth in the last decade, resulting in significant advances in development, disparities remain both within and among countries in the Global South in areas related to the Framework of Actions for the follow-up to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development Beyond 2014 and the Sustainable Development Goals. While traditional development cooperation remains critical to address these gaps, there is also an accumulated experience and expertise in the Global South that can be accessed through South-South and triangular cooperation to address institutional and capacity gaps in other countries facing similar challenges. Demographic knowledge of how many people are alive today and how these numbers will change, how old they are and how age structures will change, where they live and how spatial distribution will change, is essential for people-centred and evidence-based policies. 3

4 Without this knowledge, countries will not understand the most basic and ever-changing needs of their populations, and the question of whether policies and programmes are effective in supporting progress toward the development goals will be based on chance, rather than design. 6. This knowledge is also critical for enabling the effective monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 5. Of the 230 Sustainable Development Goal indicators, 98 require population data, of which only 41 have internationally accepted standards for measurement and data that are regularly collected by most countries (referred to as Tier I indicators). For 33 Sustainable Development Goal indicators, data collection by most countries is largely irregular (Tier II indicators), and for 21 indicators, international standards do not yet exist and most countries do not regularly collect the data (Tier III indicators). Regional assessments suggest that few developing countries have the capacity to track more than half of the 230 indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals, creating a large divide between aspirations and capabilities for evidence-based policy making. 7. Member States have emphasized the centrality of the Programme of Action of the ICPD to global development, and also expressed concern over its unequal and fragmented progress. Remaining challenges must therefore be addressed comprehensively through collaborative partnerships. Orchestrated opposition, politicization and existing misconceptions about key issues related to the ICPD, such as sexual and reproductive health and rights, have resulted in the need to engage closely with partners at national, regional and global levels to ensure that progress is not eroded. The protracted financial crisis, weak economic recoveries and migratory flows due to crises and conflicts have added to the already uncertain environment. 8. In this context, implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an immense developmental challenge. Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals will cost trillions of $US. In this context, development assistance will remain critical, especially for the world s least developed countries and for the financing of public goods, but it will not be sufficient to drive progress. Progress will require proactive and innovative solutions. 9. The above unfinished business and persisting ICPD-related challenges call for innovative, proactive and effective global interventions. In order to meet these challenges and drive progress, global interventions must: (a) Complement the focus on reducing inequalities between countries by identifying and tackling inequalities within countries and communities, thereby widening the scope of action to include countries at all stages of development. Global interventions will examine the drivers of inequalities and effective solutions, and share this knowledge between countries and regions. (b) Improve and increase the systematic collection of data (including population data) to map needs and inequalities, and use these data as demographic intelligence to inform development strategies, policies and programmes. (c) Consistently and continuously articulate positioning to promote rights-based policies and increased attention to marginalized population groups, including women and adolescent girls, in the drive to fulfil sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. (d) Complement resource assistance from official sources with assistance from other sources, including private sources. Moreover, the scale of resources needed is such that innovative financing should be explored to optimally leverage domestic resources. (e) Advancing the implementation, follow-up and review of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, including its integration in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels, through regional and global interagency and Intergovernmental processes. 4

5 (f) Expand and innovate in the area of partnerships, to safeguard the Programme of Action of the ICPD and ensure political and financial support from countries. Partnerships to implement the global agendas, contribute to accountability and protect hard-won rights are also critical at the global, regional and national levels. Strengthening engagement with a broader network of stakeholders, including parliamentarians and civil society at all levels, is key to contribute to the emerging social movements in favour of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development. (g) Strengthen South-South and triangular cooperation. This can serve as a mechanism to optimize the use of resources at all levels, put in place new modes of engagement, become a concrete tool to bring new opportunities for funding programmes, including via cost-sharing, build new alliances, and expand the exchange of national solutions to achieve common goals across regions. II. Lessons learned 10. Under the UNFPA Strategic Plan, , the same vision and focus that drove country programmes also drove the global interventions, positioning them as a source of, and a prerequisite for, coherence in programming overall. As such, the vision and strategic focus of the global interventions was inseparable from the stipulations of the strategic plan, , which placed sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights at the centre of the work of UNFPA. The most recent evaluation on the architecture of the UNFPA strategic plan, , acknowledged the global and regional interventions for to be an improvement when compared to its predecessor, the Global and Regional Programme, with a clearer alignment of the global and regional interventions to the strategic plan; a better definition of recipients of, and needs for, capacity building; and baselines and targets established across all interventions. Global interventions did, however, present some overlaps with indicators assigned at the country and regional levels. Therefore, one of the lessons learned was to better refine and clarify the role and comparative advantage of the global interventions at the indicator level. 11. The global interventions were also subject to findings and recommendations for improvement in thematic evaluations, including those of the 2010 Census Round, adolescents and youth, family planning, among others. 12. The Evaluation of the UNFPA Support to Family Planning (2016) concluded that UNFPA was a leading actor at the global and country level; however, it noted a need to increase the integration of family planning and sexual and reproductive health services, as well as the need for coordinated and evidence-based knowledge to guide regional and country interventions. Finally, it acknowledged the human rights aspects of family planning support, but emphasized the need to increase integration of a human rights-based approach into family planning programmes. 13. The conclusions of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Evaluation of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): Accelerating Change (2013), presented to the Executive Board in January 2014, noted that the joint programme on female genital mutilation showed significant strengths, including its emphasis on pursuing a holistic and culturally sensitive approach to addressing female genital mutilation, and its emphasis on addressing global, national, and local levels simultaneously. Available evidence supports several of the key assumptions shaping the underlying theory of change of the joint programme, but also highlights knowledge and evidence gaps with regard to the transition from changes in female genital mutilation-related social norms to visible changes in individual and collective behaviours and, eventually, changes in prevalence of female genital mutilation. 14. Lessons learned from implementation of the global interventions, , showed that in order to increase availability and use of family planning, maternal health and HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention services at service delivery points, a solid base of suppliers of sexual and reproductive health commodities must be available. 5

6 This can only be supported if there is an expanded source of suppliers, along with availability of quality-assessed reproductive health commodities for procurement. 15. With regard to strengthening enabling environments for the regulation of condoms, experiences with Member States has shown that availability and access to sexual and reproductive health commodities is linked to quality and regulatory systems in the countries. Therefore, the use of inconsistent quality control testing standards, and the use of different, and in some cases, inapplicable standards, negatively impacts access and availability of sexual and reproductive health commodities in countries. 16. The Evaluation of UNFPA support to population and housing census data to inform decision-making and policy formulation (2016) noted that despite being a key partner in census support, UNFPA needs to consolidate its position and expand support to the full potential of census data, by strengthening its work on increasing the use of data for policy and programming. 17. The Evaluation of UNFPA Support to Adolescents and Youth (2016) found that UNFPA is a champion for adolescent girls, and has sharpened its focus and attention on their diverse needs. While UNFPA has positioned itself strategically to support adolescents and youth, it needs to build on this by increasing the use of data for evidence-based programming, with a particular focus on helping countries identify and address the needs of the most marginalized or vulnerable adolescents and youth, including in humanitarian contexts. 18. The High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing Report to the United Nations Secretary-General, Too important to fail- addressing the humanitarian financing gap (2016), pointed out that a resilience-based approach that transcends the humanitariandevelopment divide is necessary for finding sustainable solutions to crises and recurrent vulnerability and fragility. A more flexible, multi-year funding approach that enables fluidity between phases of response, and makes sexual and reproductive health financing available to conflict-affected and non-conflict affected countries alike, can help ensure transition from relief to sustainable development. UNFPA recognize that crises will continue to occur and acute needs will always need to be met. However, a fundamental shift is required from reacting to disasters and conflicts as they unfold and sometimes linger for decades, towards: (a) sustaining peace in conflict settings; (b) prevention and mitigation of conflicts; (c) investment in disaster risk reduction, preparedness and resilience; and (d) empowerment of individuals and communities to withstand crises and disasters and recover from them. In addition to the above, UNFPA has learned that: (a) Integration of different areas of work is critical and requires focus and investment. The global interventions have enabled the organization to be a pioneer of integrated approaches to global health and development. At the same time, shrinking resources have made maximizing synergies ever more critical. Significant progress was made in recent years through the adoption of priorities that cut across different areas of work. One example of such an integrated approach is the demographic dividend, which has provided a unifying framework within the context of population and development work of UNFPA, by demonstrating that investments in health, adolescent and youth empowerment, gender equality and population data can advance sustainable development. The advocacy efforts for investments in the health and well-being of women, girls, adolescents, and youth made over time through initiatives supported by UNFPA have resulted in increased country demands for policy guidance and technical support on how to harness the demographic dividend. (b) Ambitious targets require investment in transformational partnerships and innovation. Innovation is becoming a critical component of United Nations programmes. The Innovation Initiative at UNFPA started with the establishment of the Innovation Fund in 2014 and following its first two years of implementation, the Innovation Initiative has undergone an evaluation and is currently being reoriented towards focusing on overcoming programmatic bottlenecks through innovative partnerships and strengthening internal innovation capacity. The vision is to 6

7 inclusively create and scale-up data-driven, sustainable and open solutions that accelerate the achievement of transformative results in the lives of women, girls, adolescents and youth. (c) South-South and triangular cooperation can play a catalytic role. Evidence gathered through the assessment conducted by the South-South and triangular cooperation project shows that some developing countries have seen significant progress, through the adoption of laws, policies and programmes pertaining to access to sexual and reproductive health services, and the empowerment of adolescent and young girls, youth, and excluded populations, including at community level. However, imbalances are evident and a systematic field-based approach would support country programme commitments to reinforce national institutional capacity, accelerate progress on the Programme of Action of the ICPD, and achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, leaving no one behind. (d) External evaluations of the advocacy programme with parliamentarians and civil society in donor countries have revealed strong evidence that: (e) UNFPA has been effective in creating a conducive environment for advocating for the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development in donor countries, despite financial and political challenges. Donor country parliamentarians and non-governmental organizations have successfully contributed to several policy initiatives in support of the Programme of Action of the ICPD at the Council of Europe and the European Parliament, and countered hostile activities with coordinated action between European and national levels during the implementation of global interventions, III. Proposed global interventions, In addition to the delivery of resources, UNFPA is increasingly delivering more expertise and insight. This is in line with the expectations of a growing number of countries that are willing and able to use their own financial resources for their development programmes, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and population and development, but are looking for policy guidance, technical assistance and collaboration. The global interventions action plan is critical to allow UNFPA to play this role. 20. Strongly anchored in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in the Framework of Actions for the follow-up to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development Beyond 2014, the global interventions action plan, , focuses on support for the implementation of the UNFPA strategic plan, The global interventions provide leadership for the development of knowledge products and services ensuring that advocacy, policy dialogue and technical assistance are strongly grounded in evidence and supported by state-of-art theory, which in turn contributes to the development of technically sound policies, programmes and projects. 21. The strong engagement in upstream policy dialogue and policy-making processes at the global level is another critical function conducted by global interventions to ensure the Programme of Action of the ICPD is firmly placed within global policy discussions on sustainable development. The focus of global interventions will be on shaping major global partnerships, processes, standards and norms, and supporting regional and country offices in their engagement in policy dialogue, advocacy, knowledge management and service delivery. This function is key for global interventions to guide partners and relevant actors on key trends and gaps for the accomplishment of the Programme of Action of the ICPD and the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as delivery of Commitments to Action of the World Humanitarian Summit and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. 22. Finally, global interventions also provide technical assistance to country and regional offices for the implementation of the strategic plan, as well as capacity building support for humanitarian action. This support is accompanied by strategies to ensure that critical 7

8 knowledge is decentralized within the organization and strengthens country and regional capacities to deliver on the UNFPA mandate. 23. Advancing the achievement of strategic plan outcome 1, Every woman, adolescent and youth everywhere, especially those furthest behind, has utilized integrated sexual and reproductive health services and exercised reproductive rights, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, the global interventions will focus on providing technical leadership to advance and strengthen the generation and management of state-of-the-art knowledge on sexual and reproductive health and population and development within a global technical network. The global interventions will also prioritize translating state-ofthe art technical knowledge into strategies, policies and operational tools to support country offices to integrate the Programme of Action of the ICPD into development agendas, policy dialogue and effective programmes, including supporting United Nations processes within the new aid environment. 24. The global interventions will provide qualitative and quantitative evidence to overcome inequities in accessing integrated sexual and reproductive health services and information, including in humanitarian settings. In order to prioritize sexual and reproductive health information and services for those left furthest behind, global and regional inter-governmental policies and strategies must be negotiated such that all stakeholders share a sense of ownership. Due to the scale of the issues and resource gaps, critical partnerships will be maintained and new ones forged to secure the required technical expertise, innovation, financing and domestic funding. 25. Specific areas of technical expertise including innovative financing, resilient health systems, midwifery and supply chains to deliver sexual and reproductive health and rights, including family planning, to the last mile will receive special attention. 26. To contribute to the achievement of outputs under the first outcome of the strategic plan, global interventions will ensure the availability of guidelines and tools designed for civil society to advocate for and engage in evidence-based policy dialogue for improving quality and equity of integrated sexual and reproductive health and rights services, including family planning and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV/AIDS. Global interventions also will provide support for countries to respond comprehensively to the sexual and reproductive health and rights needs of women, girls, adolescents and youth in crisis, including for delivering and implementing the minimum initial service package and strengthening cooperation and complementarity among development, humanitarian action and sustaining peace. Humanitarian action will need to move from repeated shortterm interventions toward contributing to longer-term development by investing in preparedness, disaster risk reduction and resilience gains. 27. Given the UNFPA leadership on sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian contexts, the global interventions will support implementation of the minimum initial service package, including through establishing sexual and reproductive health humanitarian coordination in countries facing emergencies, provision of sexual and reproductive health commodities and supplies, strengthening surge capacities, and ensuring timely deployment at the onset of an emergency, to support country-level humanitarian response. 28. Advancing the achievement of strategic plan outcome 2, Every adolescent and youth, in particular adolescent girls, is empowered to have access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in all contexts, the global interventions will focus on generating evidence-based knowledge to ensure that: (a) the determinants of adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights, particularly for adolescent girls, are identified; and (b) investment cases are recognized and integrated as priorities in national development plans and pillars for building the human capital of countries. Issues related to youth and adolescents will frame the demographic dividend in a way that captures the many facets of today s global age structures, in both developed and developing countries. Partnerships will be critical to advancing the integration of these issues in global agendas and inter-agency platforms on youth, e.g. the System-Wide Action Plan and the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development. 29. UNFPA acknowledges the positive role that young people play in rebuilding their communities after natural disasters and conflict situations, serving as levers for sustained 8

9 peace between communities and countries, and driving technology and connectivity. Evidence will be collected to inform youth engagement in humanitarian settings and sustaining peace initiatives, as well as UNFPA leadership of the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action. 30. Advancing the achievement of strategic plan outcome 3, Gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls, and reproductive rights are advanced in development and humanitarian settings, the global interventions will focus on the following strategies: (a) Generate evidence-based knowledge and guidance on accountability frameworks, including international human rights mechanisms, national institutions and laws, to advance gender equality and women s empowerment; (b) Ensure the availability of research and guidance on addressing the specific needs of individuals and groups most marginalised in terms of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including persons with disabilities, indigenous groups, and migrants; (c) Generate knowledge on emerging issues and broader factors for promoting gender equality and reproductive rights, including free, prior and informed consent, the linkages between reproductive rights and women s economic empowerment, and engaging men and boys; (d) Partner with a broad range of stakeholders including civil society organizations and faith-based organizations to strengthen accountability mechanisms and accelerate progress towards abandonment of gender-based harmful practices. (e) Facilitate the provision of technical assistance and capacity development on evidence-based interventions to accelerate progress in women s empowerment and reproductive rights. 31. The aim of these strategies will be to generate knowledge and research on trends, including analysis of prevalence rates and social drivers, contributing factors, and good practices to accelerate progress in the elimination of gender-based harmful practices, with a focus on child, early and forced marriage, female genital mutilation and son preference. This will include greater understanding of how gender, social, and cultural norms operate at different levels, to promote abandonment of gender-based harmful practices, including the measurement of social and cultural norm change and operational guidance. 32. Given the UNFPA leadership on gender-based violence in humanitarian contexts, the global interventions will support establishing humanitarian coordination of gender-based violence prevention and response in countries facing emergencies, strengthen surge capacities, and ensure timely deployment at the onset of an emergency, to support countrylevel humanitarian response. 33. Advancing towards the achievement of strategic plan outcome 4, Everyone, everywhere, is counted, and accounted for, in the pursuit of sustainable development, the global interventions will draw on the thought leadership of UNFPA on persisting and emerging demographic and development challenges. The provision of demographic intelligence will focus on how population changes affect sustainable development, including the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, and how demographic change is, in turn, shaped by development and rights-based policies. Global interventions will include the roll-out of population data platforms, tools and analyses to inform programming and policy development at the global, regional and country level. Interventions will also focus on the integration of data from different sources (censuses, humanitarian needs assessments, civil registration and vital statistics systems and household surveys) to support analysis, visualization and mapping of needs, including in humanitarian settings. 34. UNFPA will continue to lead and support discussions at all levels on the demographic dividend, population aging and fertility decline, and to convene major stakeholders in these areas with a view to promote common, coherent and rights-based policies and programmes. 9

10 35. Technical and evidence-based support will be provided to intergovernmental and interagency processes on the effect of sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescents and youth, gender equality and women s empowerment, and demographic change on development priorities and objectives. Interventions will facilitate and advocate for support from parliamentarians and civil society for the implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 36. Finally, global interventions will include technical assistance to countries with regard to census: to improve national data systems, to strengthen capacities to collect, disaggregate, monitor and use UNFPA-priority Sustainable Development Goals, and to integrate demographic analysis in their development strategies, policies and programmes. 37. To support achievement of organizational effectiveness and efficiency, output 1, Improved programming for results, the global interventions will focus on the following strategic areas of work: (a) Piloting, refining and scaling up innovative products, services and processes that contribute to the achievement of strategic plan outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4 through expanded partnerships and strengthened communities of practice; (b) Mainstreaming South-South and triangular cooperation as an integral part of the UNFPA business model to consolidate and strengthen institutional capacities of regional and country offices to implement the Programme of Action of the ICPD and the Sustainable Development Goals; (c) Strengthening organizational capacities for gender mainstreaming and accountability mechanisms (United Nations System-Wide Policy on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women 2.0, gender marker and gender scorecard, inter alia), as well as implementation of the System-wide action plan for ensuring a coherent approach to achieving the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 38. To support the achievement of organizational effectiveness and efficiency output 2, Optimized management of resources, the global interventions will support the development of communities of practice across institutional units and geographic spaces to address resource constraints and better leverage human and financial resources to ensure a coherent, timely, and effective support to countries and other stakeholders. 39. To support the achievement of organizational effectiveness and efficiency output three, Increased contribution to the United Nations system-wide results, coordination and coherence, the global interventions will focus on the following strategies: (a) Regularly engage in and support inter-agency mechanisms with a view to promoting a coherent and comprehensive approach in strategy and operations, including on issues related to the Programme of Action of the ICPD; (b) Manage the collaboration, harmonization and alignment of joint programmes, thematic trust funds and global initiatives related to the Programme of Action of the ICPD, e.g. the UNAIDS joint programme and the H6 Global Financing Facility. 40. To support the achievement of the organizational effectiveness and efficiency output 4, Enhanced communication, resource mobilization and partnerships for impact, the following strategic interventions will be deployed at the global level: (a) Cooperate with traditional and non-traditional partners for the identification of key development challenges, as well as designing concrete, actionable solutions; (b) Engage on technical issues with major funders (e.g. Global Fund, The United States President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), towards shaping policies and strategies; (c) Drive innovations in resource mobilization with traditional and non-traditional partners, including through financial platforms and instruments, and face-to-face fundraising activities. 10

11 IV. Action plan management, resource mobilization, partnership, monitoring and evaluation 41. The UNFPA Executive Director is ultimately and directly accountable for approval of the plans and delivery of the results of the global and regional interventions. The Executive Committee, led by the Executive Director, is explicitly designated as the decision-making body. A Secretariat for the global and regional interventions, hosted by the Programme Division, has been established to strengthen the overall coordination and management of the global and regional interventions action plans implementation. This body enables the Executive Committee to more effectively monitor and make timely decisions on the global and regional interventions. The Executive Committee makes decisions on resources, which will not be allocated to global interventions without a review of the proposal by the global and regional interventions secretariat. 42. The global interventions will be managed, implemented and monitored by the relevant UNFPA headquarters units. Overall implementation of the global interventions action plan will be coordinated by the global and regional interventions secretariat, whereas the directors of divisions will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities of their respective units, ensuring alignment with the UNFPA mandate, strategic plan and internal control and accountability frameworks. Global interventions will allocate resources for staff members to provide technical and programmatic expertise and support to implement the global interventions action plan. 43. The global interventions action plan will be implemented following the UNFPA programme policies and procedures, specifically the workplan policy. Using a results-based management approach, the global interventions action plan will be operationalized through annual work plans that will be implemented both by UNFPA directly and through implementing partners. Programmatic and financial review and revisions will likewise take place on an annual basis. Substantively, units will prepare and report on progress against the quarterly milestones identified in their respective annual results plans throughout the UNFPA Strategic Information System, myresults module. These progress updates will be compiled by the global and regional interventions secretariat, synthesized into a separate semi-annual progress report, and presented to the Executive Committee to ensure effective monitoring and timely decision-making on programmatic and financial issues. The monitoring and evaluation of the global interventions will be conducted in accordance with programme monitoring procedures identified in UNFPA programme policies, and following the established evaluation plan. 44. In accordance with the paradigm shift responding to the new aid environment and austerity measures implemented by the organization, global interventions elaborated an innovative and creative resource mobilization plan. In an effort to strengthen relationships with existing donors and to diversify their donor base, global interventions identify new and emerging donors, forge synergies with ongoing and planned initiatives by foundations and the private sector, and highlight opportunities for thematic inter-agency proposal development, inter alia. Global interventions seek to capitalize on the unique needs, skills, specificities and landscape of opportunity in the implementation of these strategies. The global interventions resource mobilization activities identified in Annex 3 will focus on the achievement of results of the global interventions action plan. 45. The partnership activities of the global interventions in will build on the results achieved and lessons learned informed by the evaluation of the architecture of the strategic plan, Key highlights of the partnership activities are elaborated in Annex 4. Throughout the programme cycle, global interventions will engage with a wide range traditional and non-traditional partners that include but are not limited to governments, parliamentarians, academia, the Global South, continental technical and political actors, and United Nations partner agencies, among others. The robust and diverse partnership choices reflect objective-driven collaboration and modalities of engagement. The partnership plan includes the following key elements: (a) delivering specific results; (b) a diversified partnership base; (c) engagement of civil society organizations with special attention to those led by marginalized groups; (d) ability to achieve more with less; (e) 11

12 opportunities to combine resources and find innovative solutions leveraging unique competencies and achieving win-win outcomes; and (f) objective to tackle intrinsically multi-sectoral challenges. 46. Global interventions will contribute to the alignment of the priorities and resources of the United Nations development system, a harmonization that will facilitate reforms that strengthen results on the ground, increase transparency and accountability, improve intersectoral approaches across the Sustainable Development Goals and ensure that no one is left behind. Building on ongoing collaboration among United Nations entities, global interventions will further strengthen inter-agency policy and programming approaches that are truly cross-cutting and able to address complex, multidimensional issues. By designing global and regional plans through a theory of change model, UNFPA will ensure that the work undertaken by the organization is most directly tied to its mandate, address overlap and the duplication of efforts, pool expertise with United Nations partner organizations where it can yield the best results, work together to build stronger partnerships within and outside the United Nations development system; and achieve greater harmonization and efficiencies in both programmes and operations. This may, in turn, facilitate the development of the joint initiatives and programmes around key areas of collaborative advantage between two or more organizations with complementary strengths, or across the development system as a whole. 12

13 Table 1. Evaluation Plan Evaluation Title South-South and triangular cooperation incorporated in UNFPA programming processes South-South and triangular cooperation incorporated in UNFPA programming processes End of programme cycle evaluation of advocacy with parliamentarians and donor country NGOs Evaluation of the global action plan reproductive health commodities prequalification Purpose of the Evaluation Mid-term evaluation to assess the use of South-South and triangular cooperation initiatives, documenting progress, accomplishments and proposing any necessary adjustments Final evaluation to assess the use of South-South and triangular cooperation initiatives in achieving the global interventions results and the impact/relevance of its use by UNFPA units as a systematic mode of engagement Assess the contribution of this specific component to UNFPA strategic plan outcomes and provide recommendations on structure of future work with NGOs and parliamentarians Evaluate the functioning and added value of the prequalification of condoms and IUDs Timeline (Month, Year) September, 2019 Estimated Cost ($) Source of Funding 25,000 Regular resources June, ,000 Regular resources December ,000 Regular resources ,000 Manufacturers fees Key Evaluation Partners Regional Offices Country Offices Programme Division UNFPA National counterparts (Ministries of Foreign Affairs) in selected partner countries Evaluation Office Regional Offices Country Offices Programme Division UNFPA National counterparts (Ministries of Foreign Affairs) in selected partner countries Evaluation Office Implementing partners WHO Prequalification WHO Reproductive Health Research The Global Fund 13

14 UNFPA Strategic Plan outcomes and outputs Annex 1. Results and resources framework Global Programme output: indicator(s), baseline and yearly targets Partners Indicative resources by global interventions, in dollars Outcome 1: Every woman, adolescent and youth everywhere, especially those furthest behind, has utilized integrated sexual and reproductive health services and exercised reproductive rights, free of coercion, discrimination and violence Regular Resources 4,795,713 4,873,252 4,917,357 4,977,229 Other Resources 3,074,000 3,074,900 3,274,900 4,794,000 Output 1: Enhanced capacities to develop and implement policies, including financial protection mechanisms, that prioritize access to information and services for sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights for those furthest behind, including in humanitarian settings Number of technical guidance, tools and peer-reviewed papers developed and disseminated to support countries to address inequities in access to integrated SRHR Baseline 2017: 4; Target 2021: Number of global intergovernmental processes on SRHR supported by UNFPA that contribute to policies and strategies prioritizing access to quality SRHR information and services by those left furthest behind Baseline 2017: 6; Target 2021: Number of humanitarian and inter-agency health coordination focusing on SRHR information and services supported by UNFPA, that contribute to the implementation of the MISP in humanitarian settings Baseline 2017: 10; Target 2021: Technical guidance developed and disseminated to support countries to develop, implement, and monitor Universal Health Coverage for improving access to quality SRH services, especially by those left furthest behind Baseline 2017: No; Target 2021: Yes 1.5 Policy guidance and tools on cash-based interventions for SRH in humanitarian situations developed and disseminated Baseline 2017: No; Target 2021: Yes 1.6 Technical guidance developed and disseminated for the integration of SRH into humanitarian response plans Baseline 2017: No; Target 2021: Yes Regular resources 1,490,926 1,507,993 1,545,013 1,562,363 Other Resources 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000

15 1.7 Number of global partnerships and technical working groups on SRHR supported to advance the implementation of the SDGs and the operationalization of the Global Strategy for Women s, Children s, and Adolescents health Baseline 2017: 26; Target 2021: 26 Output 2: Strengthened capacities to provide highquality, integrated information and services for family planning, comprehensive maternal health, sexually transmitted infections and HIV, as well as information and services that are responsive to emergencies and fragile contexts 2.1 Number of countries and regional offices trained on HIV prevention implementation tools and HIV-SRHR linkages/integration, including for key populations Baseline 2017: 0; Target 2021: 6 regions 2.2 Number of knowledge products developed and operationalized on combination HIV prevention, including condoms, and addressing the needs of young people and key populations Baseline 2017: 4; Target 2021: Number of a) evidence reports/papers developed and published on critical SRH needs focusing on family planning access, supply and demand in fragile and humanitarian settings (Baseline 2017: 1 /target 2021: 5) IAWG USAID, BMGF, UNAIDS, WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, IPPF, WB, Gates Regular Resources 2,004,457 2,033,501 2,022,445 2,052,045 Other Resources 650, , ,000 2,370,000 b) policy guidance tools developed based on the report s findings (Baseline 2017: 0 / Target 2021: 2) 2.4. Number of country and regional offices trained to strengthen capacity of local stakeholders to assess and respond to comprehensive SRH needs in humanitarian settings Baseline 2017: 0; Target 2021:6 ROs and 50 COs Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil 2.5 Number of guidelines developed and tested for addressing SRH needs in the continuum from crisis preparedness, response and recovery to strengthening resilience Baseline 2017: 0; Target 2021: Number of SSTC Initiatives using the new tagging for SSTC in GPS to enhance capacity to deliver quality SRH services, particularly those targeting youth needs, and gender-based violence. IBSA Fund MOFA of global south partners Baseline 2017: 0; Target 2021: 10 initiatives 2.7 Technical guidance on Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care National Coop. Agencies 15

16 (EmONC) developed and disseminated to support countries to strengthen availability and quality of maternal and newborn health services in national EmONC facility networks Baseline 2017: No; Target 2021: Yes 2.8 Number of countries supported to monitor maternal and newborn health services, including EmONC indicators, at a national scale Baseline 2017: 6; Target 2021: Number of countries supported for conducting EmONC Needs Assessments, followed by the identification of a national EmONC facility network and the setup of an EmONC monitoring and response system Baseline 2017: 3; Target 2021: Technical support and capacity building provided to regions and countries in support of ensuring quality and human rights-based family planning Baseline 2017: Yes; Target 2021 : Yes 2.11 Number of countries supported for the development of a costed, timebound national strategy in line with the UN goal of ending fistula within a generation Baseline 2017: 22; Target 2021: Number of technical guidance papers and tools developed and disseminated to support countries in implementing and monitoring WHO standards, to improve the quality of SRH services for adolescents and youth Baseline 2017: 1; Target 2021: Number of countries (within GAVI eligible countries) supported for the introduction of the HPV vaccine Baseline 2017: 3; Target: 8 16

17 Output 3: Strengthened capacities of the health workforce, especially those of midwives, in health management and clinical skills for high-quality and integrated sexual and reproductive health services, including in humanitarian settings 3.1 Revised Global Midwifery Strategy ( ), disseminated and implemented to ensure quality midwifery programmes Baseline 2017: No; Target 2021: Yes 3.2 Technical support and guidance provided to enhance the capacities of relevant health cadre to positively work with and meet the needs of adolescents Baseline 2017: No; Target 2021: Yes 3.3 Number of countries, regional entities and global institutions trained to implement MISP at the onset of a crisis Baseline 2017:55; Target 2021: 80 Regular Resources 466, , , ,384 Other Resources 300, , , , Number of academic health institutions and academic partners at the global level trained as master trainers on Minimum Initial Service Package Baseline 2017: 8; Target 2021: A monitoring tool developed and institutionalized that can capture rapid response in the implementation of the MISP within the 48 and 72 hours of the onset of an emergency Baseline 2017: 0; Target 2021: A monitoring tool that capture the transition from MISP to a comprehensive SRH service delivery system developed Baseline 2017: 0; Target 2021: Proportion/percentage of countries supported to integrate SRH into their disaster risk reduction plans, contingency planning and emergency preparedness and response plans Baseline 2017: 28; Target 2021: 40 Output 4: Strengthened capacities to effectively forecast, procure, distribute and track the delivery of sexual and reproductive health commodities, ensuring resilient supply chains 4.1 UNFPA supply chain management strategy available and implemented Baseline 2017: No; Target 2021: Yes 4.2 Number of technical tools and guidance available for strengthened national capacities in establishing a functional LMIS/eLMIS Baseline 2017: 0; Target 2021: Number of national laboratories trained for compliance with ISO or updated ISO standard Other partners: JSI, FP2020 Regular Resources 705, , , ,439 Other Resources 1,024,000 1,024,900 1,024,900 1,024,000 17